On the face of it, this isn't anything more than Parry did. If you have a 
substrate that can interpret actions and situations into emotional inputs ("I 
just got insulted") the overall emotional control mechanism can be modelled 
by an embarrassingly simple system of differential equations.

Josh


On Friday 27 April 2007 09:15, Eric B. Ramsay wrote:
> In reading about Sony's QRIO robot I came across the following. What would
> this behaviour be categorized as in the continuum from thermostat to human
> (following a previous thread)? :
>
>   "Interestingly, when they're doing demonstrations, they have found that
> the AI in QRIO is so strong that if you haven't been friendly with it
> before hand, for examples, by not kicking back a football it kicks to you,
> it will refuse to do what you ask it in the demonstration. Effectively it
> is expressing its annoyance...."
>
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